Stephen Hawking gets birthday gift from Intel

Intel honors Professor Stephen Hawking for his contributions to fundamental physics and cosmology with birthday gift and makes sponsorship announcement.

LONDON – Intel has presented Professor Stephen Hawking with a birthday gift, a 300-mm wafer with the message "Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking" inscribed hundreds of times in copper letters defined using Intel's 32-nm manufacturing procress.

The silicon wafer was presented to Professor Hawking as a follow-up to a symposium, held to celebrate his 70th birthday and contributions to fundamental physics and cosmology. The event was streamed live by Intel on the Internet. Intel also announced it plans to provide sponsorship for an International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, to be held in Cambridge on Sept. 2 to 6, 2013.

"This is a very special gift for an extraordinary scientist and an extraordinary man," said Professor Martin Curley, Intel vice president and director of Intel Labs Europe, as he presented the award. "Professor Hawking's ground-breaking scientific contributions and his remarkable resilience are an inspiration to us all."

Professor Stephen Hawking is director of research and founder of The
Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge. The Centre has recently
received a Cosmos Mk IX supercomputer that is based on Intel processors
and is being applied to complex mathematical challenges facing
researchers in cosmological research. The supercomputer features 1,856
Intel Xeon E5 processor cores with 14.5-terabytes of globally shared
memory.

The supercomputer will contribute to answering key questions such as: What happened in the first moments after the Big Bang? What were the primordial seeds that lead to the formation of galaxies, stars, planets and, ultimately people?

"We have a long standing relationship with Professor Hawking," said Justin Rattner, Intel Chief Technology Officer and managing director of Intel Labs, in a statement. "We are very pleased to continue to support the work of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and to work closely with Professor Hawking on improving his personal communication system."

SH needs to be treated with upper respect. Amazing what he does archive. For me I feel just like a ripple in the pond in comparison to him, that's all. The article learns you to realize about the value of materialism. SH can not use a lot, he is very limited to use modern equipment and geeky hardware gimmicks. When I was a young engineer I would want to have all I could get my hands on. Now I am more relaxed and look at our world with total other view. I learned to let things pass, for goodness sake... Just my thought...

to conclude, Let me quote as following,
so intel is a typical hypocrite, and HK is a fool.
“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with
trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the
streets, to be honoured by men. I tell you the truth, they have
received their reward in full.
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand
know what your right hand is doing,

Wow!! I can't believe that guys of your 'intelligence' would make such blatant, and quite frankly discusting comments about SH. Just becuase he is disabled, it does not mean we should discriminate and lock him away out of sight. He has achived more in his lifetime than most of you put together - without being able to speak or walk. Grow up and show some respect

this is a lose-lose situation dude.
Hawking don't need any birthday gift. as you said this made him look like a fool.
Intel could be nicer if they aviod a picture of his deformed face to show to the whole world.
any decent man knows to put some coverups to their natural shortfalls, false hair, legs etc.

How do you want to measure achievements? Intel very much depends on physics with all what they do. Intel produces CPUs used for computers which are used by physicists. So to me it is very obvious they do honor Hawkings and not someone who did remarkable achievement in medical science.

For unknown reason I don't feel comfortable in reading this piece anyway.
I think intel should stick with maroon 5 or U2 for publicity promotions.
It's not right to use this poor man's twisted face to earn some attention.